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Can large fermion chemical potentials suppress the electroweak phase transition ?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We calculate the critical temperature (Tc(T_c) of the electroweak phase transition in the minimal standard model considering simultaneously temperature (TT) and fermion chemical potential (μf\mu_f) effects over the effective potential. The calculation is performed in the one-loop approximation to the effective potential at non-zero temperature using the real time formalism of the thermal field theory. We show that it exists a fermion chemical potential critical value (μfc\mu_f^c) for which the Higgs boson condensate vanishes at T=0. If TT and μf\mu_f effects are considered simultaneously, it is shown that for μfμfc\mu_f \geq \mu_f^c then Tc20T_c^2 \leq 0, implying that the electroweak phase transition might not take place.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011123,
  title  = {Can large fermion chemical potentials suppress the electroweak phase transition ?},
  author = {Carlos Quimbay and John Morales and Rafael Hurtado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011123},
  year   = {2007}
}

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